Dashwire makes using your mobile phone
easier – from your computer
Free service wirelessly mirrors your
mobile phone to the web to achieve easier access to its wide range of
powerful features and capabilities.
SAN FRANCISCO, California
— October 22, 2007 — Matching PC functionality with wireless
connectivity, Dashwire, Inc. today unveiled its innovative solution
for mobile phone users that automatically mirrors the content on a phone
to the web, making it significantly easier to manage, enhance, and share
mobile experiences – no cables required.
“The potential around web-connected
phones and services is the biggest opportunity in the wireless industry,”
said Ford Davidson, CEO and founder of Dashwire. “Mobile phone buyers
are excited by the possibilities of their phones only to find that they
can’t easily gain access to the rich features beyond making phone
calls. And the instruction manual isn’t cutting it – even for simple
tasks. With Dashwire, we took a different approach by automatically
mirroring your phone to your computer screen to deliver an amazing end-to-end
solution that enhances the experience of owning a phone.”
The Dashwire Experience
As people live their lives, the mobile
phone is something that goes with them everywhere. It’s constantly
recording daily life and the memories that are important through text
messages, contacts, calls, photos, and videos. Unfortunately, much of
this footage is lost forever because it’s entirely too difficult for
users to figure out how to access and share it with others.
Dashwire changes this by taking the
world captured on a mobile phone and making it available in an easy-to-use
interface when a user gets back to the computer. All phone content —
contacts, text messages, calls, photos, videos, and phone settings —
seamlessly uploads and is safely stored in a web-based Dashwire account.
From there, users have access to a number of cool features that help
simplify and enhance their mobile phone experiences.
Contact Management
When it comes to a mobile phone, it
all starts with a user’s contacts. That’s why Dashwire automatically
backs-up phone contacts to the web, where users can add, edit, or delete
them, and have all changes instantly updated on their phones. Add a picture
to one contact and change a phone number on another – both changes
will be updated on the web and reflected on the phone in just a few
seconds.
Fast and Easy Text Messaging
With Dashwire, users can also send
and receive text messages from their computers using the text messaging
plan they already have in place with their carrier, without even picking
up their phones. Literally. “It’s incredible to think
that 620 billion text messages were sent around the world in the first
quarter of 2007. Imagine how many more will be sent when users can easily
search their messages and respond from the comfort of a computer keyboard!
We’re bringing an instant messaging-like experience to SMS via Dashwire,”
said Davidson.
Automatic Media Upload and Sharing
“Believe it or not, your phone actually
takes great photos. The trouble is that most users have never known
what to do with them before,” said Davidson. Dashwire changes this
by instantly uploading the photos and videos you capture on your phone
to the web where users can edit, organize into albums, and share with
the people that matter most to them – wherever they are.
Single-Click Phone Configuration
Who wants to read the owner’s manual?
With Dashwire, your ringtones, wallpapers, speed dials, and Internet
favorites can be easily set from your web-based account and instantly
updated on your phone – all with just a few mouse clicks.
With Dashwire’s free service, the
data on your mobile phone is securely backed-up and easy to search,
interact with, and share using the power and familiarity of your computer.
Dashwire is simple to use, and within minutes of signing up, users will
be able to experience their mobile world in an amazing new way.
To sign up for an invitation to start
using Dashwire’s free service, visit www.dashwire.com on your
computer web browser. Dashwire is initially available for Windows Mobile
5.0 and 6-powered phones like the HTC Touch, AT&T Tilt, T-Mobile
Dash & Wing, Samsung BlackJack, Palm Treo 750, and Motorola Q series.
Additional phone platforms will be supported in the near future.
To see a video demonstration of Dashwire,
visit www.dashwire.com/tour. CTIA attendees can see a Dashwire
demonstration as part of the Microsoft theater presentations in booth
#109.
About Dashwire, Inc.
Dashwire, Inc. was founded in 2006
to help unlock the possibilities in mobile phones for people around
the world. Dashwire is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle,
Washington, USA. The company is backed by investors and strategic advisors
who helped build the wireless and technology industries at McCaw Cellular,
Nextel, China Unicom, Western Wireless, and Microsoft. Additional information
can be found online at http://www.dashwire.com.
Dashwire is a registered trademark
of Dashwire, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Windows
Mobile is a registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in
the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies
and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective
owners.
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